Jerry H. Goldfeder practices election and political law at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP in New York City. He teaches Election Law at Fordham Law School and the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and is the author of Goldfeder's Modern Election (N.Y.Legal Publishing Corp.), now in its Third Edition. He is a regular columnist for the New York Law Journal ("Government and Election Law")and City & State ("Politics and Law"), and appears frequently in the media as an expert on election, campaign finance and public integrity issues.

If Hillary Clinton runs for President, she should of course think about how to get to 270 electoral college votes. But before she does that, she needs to keep her eye on the "magic number" -- a majority of delegate votes to secure the Democratic Party nomination.